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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988
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518 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April 14 II The Program in Policy Economics was established in FY 1986. T h e tuition and fee actions proposed for FY 1989 are as follows: FY 1987 $ 9 175 2 125 $11300 FY 1988 $ 9 600 2 200 $11800 Proposed, FY 1989 $10 250 2 350 $12 600 FY 1989 Increase $ 650 150 $~800 Tuition Fees Total The Program in Policy Economics has grown more rapidly and successfully than envisioned when it began. Fifty-one students from seventeen countries were enrolled in the fall of 1987. More than twenty students with strong academic backgrounds were denied admission because they could not be accommodated. Additional funds are required in FY 1989 to provide for normal salary and cost increases, and to add new sections in economics courses, the core of the program, as well as in the elective courses. Additional fee increases are required to upgrade the number and nature of field trips to financial institutions, businesses, and professional associations, an important addition to classroom instruction, and to expand the number of speakers brought to the campus. T h e Graduate School of Library and Information Science proposes to offer a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science as a full cost recovery program in Chicago. Illinois Board of Higher Education review and approval of this request is expected in May 1988. This initiative provides a weekend program in Chicago to meet the needs of individuals with work experience in libraries or other information professions and who desire advanced professional education and the required credentials but are unable to enroll in the traditional program. The initial enrollment will be held to forty-five students, although demand is substantially higher. Intensive efforts will be made to recruit members of minorities to respond to the need for broader representation in the University and in the profession in general. In a random sample of fifty library directors (from a total of more than 600 libraries in the Chicago area), more than half indicated that they or members of their staffs would be interested in such a program; that 75 percent would provide some form of tuition reimbursement for their staffs; and that more than half would offer released time for continuing professional education. Two informational meetings held recently to describe the program have drawn 160 participants. T h e program will be offered for two full days every other weekend throughout the year and can be completed in two years. The proposed tuition and fees for FY 1989 are $4,300 and $300, respectively. T h e tuition rate is sufficient to cover the costs of adding two full-time faculty members to the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, to cover the costs of adjunct faculty members in the Chicago area, and to cover administrative costs. T h e fees will support a variety of enrichment activities beyond formal instruction such as microcomputer application, field trips, and outside speakers. I recommend approval of the several tuition and fee charges as presented above. On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, these recommendations were approved. Increases in Charges for Courses, Institute of Aviation, Urbana (19) A review of operations and maintenance costs for aircraft and training equipment in the Institute of Aviation at Urbana has been completed, and
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